Category: Science

On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the

Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity.

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion

In most areas of archaeology, excavators painstakingly dig layer by layer to reveal not just buried artifacts but also charred seeds, broken bones and microscopic

Most archaeologists spend time digging in the dirt or piecing together broken artifacts or bones in the lab, attempting to make sense of the past

This week’s science news was filled with big discoveries from the world of the small, led by a physicist’s creation of a mini-universe, which was

The patient: An 83-year-old man in Belgium The symptoms: The man sought medical attention at a hospital because the muscles on one side of his

Fast charging seems to be almost everywhere. Many smartphones can go from nearly empty to more than 50% charged in about half an hour, while

In her new book, science journalist Roberta Kwok takes readers behind the scenes to understand how researchers get nature to give up its secrets.

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean southeast

Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies the properties of thick, viscous liquids — think honey or molasses, though in

Early Christian communities in Sweden often buried children in the same grave with adults, but archaeologists have found that these individuals rarely shared close biological

A new upgrade to the International Space Station’s (ISS) quantum laboratory is enabling NASA to probe the behavior of atoms further than ever before, the

New Horizons data reveal Pluto’s first six confirmed landslides along steep crater rims.